Professor John Bennet

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British School at Athens52 Souedias StreetAthens, 10676+30 211 1022 801

Research

My research focuses on the archaeology of complex societies (particularly the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean), the archaeology and history of Crete, early writing and administrative systems (especially Linear B), and on the Venetian and Ottoman periods in Greece, often explicitly integrating material and textual evidence. My further interest in diachronic regional studies has been developed through fieldwork in Crete (Knossos; Phaistos region; Chania region), mainland Greece (Pylos region) and the islands (Keos; Kythera).

As Director, I co-edit the BSA Annual and compile the annual Archaeology in Greece bulletin for Archaeological Reports. I am available to advise current and prospective postgraduate students.

I have taught in the Universities of Cambridge, Wisconsin–Madison and Oxford and also currently hold a Chair in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.

Principal publications:

Books

J.L. Davis and J. Bennet (eds). 2017. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Retrospective (Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

F. Zarinebaf, J. Bennet and J.L. Davis. 2005. A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century. Hesperia Supplement 34. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

J. Bennet. 2017. Gelb and Gell in the Aegean: Thoughts on the Relations between ‘Writing’ and ‘Art’. In A.R. Knodell & T.P. Leppard (eds) Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honour of John F. Cherry (Sheffield: Equinox) 59-74.

J. Bennet. 2017. Palaces and Their Regions: Geographical Analysis of Territorial Exploitation in Late Bronze Age Crete and Greece. In P. Carlier†, F. Joannès, F. Rougemont, J. Zurbach (eds), Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean. First steps towards a comprehensive study and analysis. Acts of the ESF Exploratory Workshop held in Sèvres, 16-19 Sept. 2010 (Rome: Biblioteca di Pasiphae) 151-73.

J. Bennet. 2013. Minoan Crete: a world of objects, a world of places. In Galanakis, Y. (ed.). The Aegean World. A Companion Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Collections in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (Oxford / Athens: Ashmolean Museum / Kapon Editions) 102-117.

J. Bennet. 2013. Bronze Age Greece. In P. Bang & W. Scheidel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press) 235-58.

J. Bennet. 2008. ‘Now you see it; now you don’t!’: the disappearance of the Linear A script on Crete. In J. Baines, S. Houston, & J. Bennet (eds), The Disappearance of Writing Systems (London: Equinox) 1-29.

J. Bennet. 2007. The Aegean Bronze Age. In I. Morris, R. Saller and W. Scheidel (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 175-210.